Printmaking for Creative Collage

This unique course will be a two-day workshop suitable for complete beginners as well as those with some experience. Participants will learn about both printmaking and collage separately, and then experiment using them together! Abbie and Karin will demonstrate the range of versatile techniques of monoprinting. Visual elements created are then collaged together creating a new whole.

About the Instructors:

Abbie Read is a mixed media and book arts artist living and working in Appleton, Maine. She has taught drawing, painting, printmaking, book arts and collage classes and workshops over the last 45 or so years. Her work is in collections cross the country and has also shown in France, Qatar and currently in Hong Kong through the Art in Embassies Program run by the U.S. State Department.

Karin Otto brings her background in arts administration, teaching, and fine arts to Waterfall Arts since 2012. Using a variety of print making techniques, Karin’s work reflects the repetitive patterns of organic shapes and forms found in the natural world. As a long-time contributor to Waterfall Arts, Karin has curated and produced gallery exhibitions, coordinated events, taught classes and workshops, assisted with program planning, and manages the Kennedy Press. Just this year, Karin participated as a Mentor in Printmaking for the Maine Crafts Association Craft Apprentice Program (CAP). Karin also works as a Human Resources consultant for both for-profit and non-profit organizations. Karin has a BFA in Sculpture and Ceramics, MFA in Organizational Behavior and is a certified professional coach through the Coaches Training Institute.